Alina López Hernández is a historian, essayist, and left-wing intellectual from Matanzas, and a member of Cuba's Academy of History. Since March 2023, she has held monthly silent vigils at Matanzas' Liberty Park calling for the release of political prisoners, and has been placed under house arrest and a travel ban. In this interview with El Salto, she offers a rigorous critique of the Cuban government's shift from welfare-state authoritarianism to anti-popular repression under Raúl Castro, (…)

Plus d'un demi-million de Français ont signé la pétition appelant les députés à voter contre la proposition de loi sur les « formes renouvelées de l'antisémitisme », portée par la macroniste Caroline Yadan. À gauche, on espère que la mobilisation citoyenne influencera les élus lors de l'examen du texte la semaine prochaine.
Il y a quelques jours, le compteur a commencé à s'affoler. Mardi 7 avril après-midi, la barre des 500 000 signatures a été atteinte. Avec ses plus de 2 millions de (…)

The recent wave of denunciations from ministers, army chiefs, and right-wing pundits aims to obscure the fact that settler violence is state policy.
Palestinians inspect the damage caused during overnight attacks by Israeli settlers near Al-Arroub refugee camp in Hebron, March 30, 2026. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)
In recent days, “settler violence” — a sanitized term for attacks carried out by Israelis against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the intention of displacing them (…)

The year 2025 marks one of the most critical periods for the women's and civil society movements in Indonesia. Political dynamics characterized by a shrinking democratic space, rising militarism, and increasing criminalization of activists indicate a regression in the fulfillment of civil and political rights. This situation does not stand alone but is intertwined with rising gender-based violence, policies that do not prioritize women, and weak protections for human rights defenders. (…)

Echo Fortune and Terry Conway report from central London.
The Together Alliance march against the far right on Saturday, 28 March, was probably the biggest anti-fascist protest in British history. It was comparable to some of the early Palestine solidarity demonstrations.
Organisers claim it was half a million people – it's difficult to be certain with such a mammoth crowd, but it was over two and a half hours after the front banners left Park Lane before the back did so. Just getting (…)